Orson Scott Card on Copyrights
September 16, 2003 in Articles
Author Orson Scott Card has a great article/column on his take of copyrights. Excellent views!
Some musicians are getting verbal about the RIAA suing people. This article seems to suggest that there is finally some realization that the record industry is screwing the artists. There is even mention of iTunes Store.
I still think more Artists should do internet distributing, like the Ataris have done. And I think Apple should allow people to easily add an album to the store. I know that Rory and I couldn’t find how to get the DVC Night Jazz Band CD on there….
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-88- said on September 20, 2003
I said five years ago, that the way out of this morass just may be artists who can stand and blow off the RIAA and their label-agents, the recording companies who are not bright enough to see the territory — internet distributed music and internet promoted music without the profit-gobbling private bureaucracy of the RIAA and their suppressive labels. Every artist can, by refusing record company contracts flat out, and by refusing to get in bed with the RIAA police and their label whores in the first place, and instead control the promotion and distribution of their work 100% through the internet. One missing piece is the presence of numerous web-based ‘Artist Radio’ stations that play ONLY music untainted by RIAA encrouchment. Anybody reading this with the littlist of funds could create a cultural rocker by starting their own internet music radio that bans any, repeat ANY, RIAA/label copyrighted music. Sign a recording label contract, be immediately banned from all Artist Radio. This neatly turns the RIAA strategy on it’s head and uses it for, rather than against artists. Direct links to artists web sites who wish to handle the distribution of their work the way they wish puts the power of decision back in the artist’s hands. It might have to be listener sponsored at first, paid advertising could be helpful obviously, likely a college radio station will be the mold breaker — not sure the route, but am confident it can be done successfully. Artists CAN stop getting in bed with the aids infected RIAA and CAN therefore stop complaining about being screwed up with aural and career venereal disease. Start ARTIST’S RADIO. LOCK OUT THE RIAA.